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India takes rapid strides towards Internet of Thingsedit
The recently-concluded IoT India Congress in Bengaluru introduced a new platform this year for startups to interface with angel investors. Twelve of India’s leading angel investors including Ajeet Khurana and V.C. Karthic committed Rs 14.4 million of investment to IoT startups Intelitaap and Swajal.
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RITES Recruitment 2017 For Engineer, Assistant Manager Posts; 52 Vacanciesedit
The candidate should possess full time Degree approved by UGC/AICTE; from a University incorporated by an Act of Central or State legislature in India or other Educational Institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be Deemed as University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. Sections A & B examination of the Institution of Engineers (India) which is treated as equivalent to Degree by Govt. of India, shall also be accepted.
Institution of Engineers (India)AK, CEO RSP, Felicitated By Institution Of Engineers India, Rourkel On Engineer’ Dayedit
Ashwini Kumar, CEO, RSP was felicitated by the Institution of Engineers (India), Rourkela Local Centre on the occasion of the 50th Engineers’ Day celebrations for his immense contribution to the field of engineering. The function was held at Gopabandhu Auditorium of RSP on 15th Sept.
Institution of Engineers (India)Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE and Christie Lake Kids Partner on Solar Project for Underprivileged Youth in Ottawa, Canadaedit
Approved by EPICS in IEEE in April 2016 and completed in July 2017, the solar project resulted from a partnership between EPICS in IEEE and Christie Lake Kids, where young CLK participants were asked to form groups and develop project ideas in line with an EPICS in IEEE charter.
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Will the New Telecom Policy be the answer to the many ills plaguing telecom sector?edit
According to Manoj Sinha: “We need to think of and prepare for an ecosystem where Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are mainstream and connectivity is seamless, designed to improve the quality of e-governance and education as well as to enable financial inclusion, smart cities and an intelligent transportation system, amongst other things.”
IoTTelecomAI may take away jobs, but will create new onesedit
On the concerns that artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) would take away jobs, Mr. Pankaj agreed that jobs would be lost and therefore a choice of career was important. For instance, audio transcription jobs would be lost as automatic speech recognition was emerging. Jobs in call centres, medical imaging, telemarketing, para legal and low-level technical jobs were at risk, he said.
Artificial IntelligenceTask force seeks public opinion on artificial intelligenceedit
By Alnoor Peermohammed
The task force, set up in August, has been asked to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI and a five-year roadmap for its use in government and industry research programmes.
Artificial IntelligenceIndustrialists must familiarise themselves with latest technologiesedit
By RS Sharma Disruptive technologies, such as IoT (internet of things) and artificial intelligence, are all poised to change the face of the industry and therefore industrialists should familiarise themselves with the latest technological advances and make use of them judiciously, according to IT experts.
Internet of ThingsIBM reintroduced artificial intelligence to the worldedit
Despite the recent criticism that IBM Watson has received, Sriram Raghavan, director, IBM Research India defends its applicability across sectors including healthcare, retail and financial services. Raghavan talks to TOI about how the field of research is changing rapidly with co-innovation, multidisciplinary application and blockchain.
Artificial IntelligenceNasscom optimistic about FY19; sees green shoots, demand uptickedit
Industry body Nasscom is expecting the USD 150-billion Indian IT industry to deliver a strong performance next fiscal on revival in tech spends of the financial sector and demand growth from the US clients.
Internet of ThingsIoT to create new avenuesedit
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Andhra Pradesh Technology Development and Promotion Centre (APTDC) organised the IoT-AI Summit, a two-day conference, on ‘Disruptive technologies for transforming business in a digitally integrated world’ here on Friday.
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A new way to approach higher educationedit
Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about the progress of learners and the contexts in which learning takes place
Higher EducationAICTE explores merger, buyout of collegesedit
The technical education council would ascertain legal implication of merging two colleges in the close vicinity and also whether buyouts were possible within the present law, they said. After the third and the last round of allotments to private self-financing colleges in the state, only 32 has more than 40 percent admissions in government quota.
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Integration Of Increasing Renewable Energy Into Grid Will Have Bearing On Energy Rates, Plant Lifeedit
By Naina Sood
Rapid renewable capacity addition and the plummeting tariffs of solar power which will pose challenges in terms of lower PLFs of thermal power plants
Renewable EnergyIndia has limited fossil fuels to support demand of 1.25 bn people, renewable energy only way: MNRE Secretary Anand Kumaredit
By Sonali Verma
Renewable energy is the only way for a country like India with the population as large as 1.25 billion that has finite fossil fuels to cater to the needs of all, said Anand Kumar, Secretary Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Renewable EnergyUS trade body recommendation may impact India’s solar power sectoredit
By Utpal Bhaskar
Indian solar power tariffs’ sharp decline will get arrested in the short term with Chinese solar module prices set to increase post the US trade body recommendation on Friday
Solar EnergyIndia third in nuclear power installations: studyedit
By Vidya Venkat
India is third in the world in the number of nuclear reactors being installed, at six, while China is leading at 20, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017, released this month, shows. The number of nuclear reactor units under construction is, however, declining globally for the fourth year in a row, from 68 reactors at the end of 2013 to 53 by mid-2017, the report says.
Renewable EnergyUse of solar energy witnessing slow progressedit
The use of non-conventional energy and especially the solar energy is witnessing slow progress in the state. With small units in the sector itself witnessing slow progress it is not surprising that for large commercial production of non-conventional energy we still have long way to go.
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